Age Quotes

Jerome seymour brune - the shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the...
Oliver wendell holmes jr. - every year, if not every day, we have to wager...
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
William Shakespeare
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.
Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
Jean Cocteau
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage conquers all things.
Ovid
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Norman Douglas
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.
Charlie Chaplin
William h. mauldin - i feel like a fugitive from the law of averages....
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
Jack Holland
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.
Real Live Preache
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Anon.
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Henry David Thoreau
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
Alexander Hamilton
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong